Tag: cybercrime
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Cybercrime losses jumped 26% to $20.9 billion in 2025
The FBI’s annual report on digital crimes exposes a worsening environment. Yet, an unknown number of victims still suffer in the shadows never reporting the crimes they endure. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/fbi-internet-crime-complaint-center-annual-cybercrime-report/
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The Trojan horse of cybercrime: Weaponizing SaaS notification pipelines
Cisco Talos has recently observed an increase in activity that is leveraging notification pipelines in popular collaboration platforms to deliver spam and phishing emails. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/weaponizing-saas-notification-pipelines/
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Microsoft links Medusa ransomware affiliate to zero-day attacks
Microsoft says that Storm-1175, a China-based financially motivated cybercriminal group known for deploying Medusa ransomware payloads, has been deploying n-day and zero-day exploits in high-velocity attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-links-medusa-ransomware-affiliate-to-zero-day-attacks/
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Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab
An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across…
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6 ways attackers abuse AI services to hack your business
Tags: ai, api, attack, backdoor, breach, business, ceo, china, control, cve, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, email, espionage, exploit, framework, group, hacking, injection, leak, LLM, malicious, malware, marketplace, microsoft, monitoring, open-source, openai, service, skills, software, startup, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerabilityAbusing AI platforms as covert C2 channels: Cybercriminals are also abusing AI platforms as covert command-and-control (C2) channels by turning AI services into proxies that hide malicious traffic inside the flow of legitimate content.Instead of running a dedicated C2 server, malware is programmed to fetch commands and exfiltrate data through AI services, circumventing traditional security…
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BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identity of the main threat actors associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation.The threat actor, who went by the alias UNKN, functioned as a representative of the group, advertising the ransomware in June 2019 on the XSS cybercrime…
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Latest BreachForums Reboot Tied to Fake ShinyHunters Admin
After Hacker Site Gets Resurrected, Cybercrime Group Denies All Involvement Drama continues fast and furious in BreachForums land, as someone claiming to be part of the ShinyHunters crime group said they’ve rebooted the long-running and oft-disrupted forum yet again. But an official ShinyHunters channel denied the group having involvement in any such reboots. First seen…
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Top 10 Best Privileged Access Management (PAM) Solutions 2026
In the dynamic and increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape of 2026, privileged accounts remain the most coveted targets for cybercriminals and malicious insiders alike. From system administrators and database managers to automated scripts and applications, these >>digital crown jewels<< hold the keys to an organization's most sensitive data and critical infrastructure. A single compromised privileged credential…
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Europe’s cyber agency blames hacking gangs for massive data breach and leak
CERT-EU blamed the cybercrime group TeamPCP for the recent hack on the European Commission, and said the notorious ShinyHunters gang was responsible for leaking the stolen data online. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/04/03/europes-cyber-agency-blames-hacking-gangs-for-massive-data-breach-and-leak/
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Adversaries Exploit Vacant Homes to Intercept Mail in Hybrid Cybercrime
Threat actors are exploiting vacant homes as “drop addresses” to intercept mail and enable fraud. Flare shows how postal services and fake identities are abused to turn mail into a fraud vector. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/adversaries-exploit-vacant-homes-to-intercept-mail-in-hybrid-cybercrime/
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Cybercriminals take aim at Hasbro, weeks of recovery ahead
Hasbro, an American toy maker with more than 5,000 employees, confirmed a cyberattack and proactively took certain systems offline. The intrusion was detected on March 28, and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/01/hasbro-cyberattack-network-breach/
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Your Next Employee Might Not Exist: LexisNexis Report Exposes the Synthetic Identity Explosion
The cybercrime landscape has always rewarded speed, smash-and-grab credential theft, rapid account takeovers, opportunistic phishing. But the LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2026 Cybercrime Report, derived from analysis of more than 116 billion online transactions, signals a fundamental strategic shift. Fraud is no longer just fast. Increasingly, it is deliberate, methodical, and terrifyingly patient. The report.. First…
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Casbaneiro Phishing Targets Latin America and Europe Using Dynamic PDF Lures
A multi-pronged phishing campaign is targeting Spanish-speaking users in organizations across Latin America and Europe to deliver Windows banking trojans like Casbaneiro (aka Metamorfo) via another malware called Horabot.The activity has been attributed to a Brazilian cybercrime threat actor tracked as Augmented Marauder and Water Saci. The e-crime group was first documented by Trend Micro…
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CrystalX Malware-as-a-Service Spreads via Telegram With Stealer, RAT Tools
Hackers are actively promoting a new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform called CrystalX RAT through private Telegram channels, offering cybercriminals a powerful toolkit that combines remote access, data theft, surveillance, and even prank-based disruption features. Security researchers identified the campaign in March 2026, noting that the malware is being sold under a subscription model with three pricing…
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Anthropic employee error exposes Claude Code source
Tags: access, ai, computer, control, credentials, cybercrime, data, data-breach, malicious, open-source, service, technology, tool, vulnerabilityCSO, “no sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed. This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach. We’re rolling out measures to prevent this from happening again.”But it wasn’t the first time this had happened; according to Fortune and other news sources, the same thing happened last…
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Iran Deploys ‘Pseudo-Ransomware,’ Revives Pay2Key Operations
Iranian APTs are blurring the lines between state-sponsored and cybercriminal activities to target high-impact US organizations. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/iran-pseudo-ransomware-pay2key-operations
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Fahndung nach Cyberkriminellen 130 Firmen attackiert
130 Unternehmen und Institutionen gerieten ins Visier der Hacker.Nach jahrelangen Cybercrime-Angriffen auf mehr als Hundert Unternehmen und Einrichtungen in Deutschland haben Ermittler zwei zentrale Verdächtige identifiziert. Der eine sei der mutmaßliche Kopf von zwei Hackergruppen, der andere der mutmaßliche Programmierer der von diesen Gruppen genutzten Schadsoftware. Dies teilten das bei der Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Karlsruhe eingerichtete Cybercrime-Zentrum…
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Qilin Ransomware allegedly breached chemical manufacturer giant Dow Inc
Qilin ransomware claims a breach of Dow Inc., listing it on its Tor leak site, but no proof of the hack has been released yet. Qilin Ransomware group allegedly breached the chemical manufacturing giant Dow Inc. The cybercrime group added the company to its Tor data leak site, but at this time, it has not…
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Tax Filing Scams Used to Deliver Malware in New Cybercrime Campaigns
Cybercriminals are once again exploiting global tax seasons, abusing IRS and tax filing lures to deliver malware, remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools, and credential phishing in a wave of new 2026 campaigns. Security researchers have already tracked more than a hundred tax-themed operations worldwide, with a noticeable increase in the use of legitimate RMM…
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Global Cybercrime Investigations Gain Ground
Stan Duijf of Dutch National Police on Collaborative Law Enforcement. Global law enforcement agencies are shifting tactics to disrupt ransomware earlier in the attack chain. Stan Duijf of the Dutch National Police describes how collaboration, threat intelligence and cryptocurrency seizures are making cybercrime more costly and less effective for criminals. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Cybercriminals Exploit Tax Season With New Phishing Tactics
Tax-season phishing floods deliver RMM malware, credential theft, BEC and tax-form scams First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/tax-season-new-phishing-tactics/
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Partei Die Linke wurde Opfer eines Cyberangriffs
Wie Trend Micro berichtet, wurde vergangenen Donnerstag das IT-Netzwerk der Partei Die Linke Ziel eines Cyberangriffs. In der veröffentlichten Pressemeldung heißt es: ‘Uns liegen Hinweise vor, dass es sich um einen Ransomware-Angriff der Hackergruppe “šQilin’ handelt. Dabei handelt es sich um eine mutmaßlich russischsprachige Cybercrime-Organisation, deren Aktivitäten sowohl finanziell als auch politisch motiviert sein können.”…
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Russian court sentences notorious card fraud ringleader ‘Flint’ and 25 associates
A Russian military court sentenced 26 members of the cybercrime group Flint24, including ringleader Alexei Stroganov, a notorious hacker also wanted in the U.S. for large-scale payment card fraud. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russia-flint-conviction-payment-fraud
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Cybercrime Report zeigt einen deutlichen Anstieg bei synthetischem Identitätsbetrug
Tags: cybercrimeFirst seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/cybercrime-report-anstieg-identitaetsbetrug
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New Homoglyph Tricks Let Cybercriminals Mimic Trusted Domains
New homoglyph attack techniques are turning tiny visual differences in text into a reliable way to spoof trusted domains, steal credentials, and bypass weak Unicode handling in security stacks. By abusing Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), Punycode, and Unicode “confusables,” attackers can register domains that look legitimate in the browser bar while resolving to attacker”‘controlled infrastructure.…
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Aufdeckung von rund 15.500 bösartigen Domains
Wie aktuelle Analysen von Infoblox Threat Intel und Confiant zeigen, verlagert sich Cyberkriminalität zunehmend in schwer erkennbare Bereiche des Internets. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/aufdeckung-15-500-boesartige-domains
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Aufdeckung von rund 15.500 bösartigen Domains
Wie aktuelle Analysen von Infoblox Threat Intel und Confiant zeigen, verlagert sich Cyberkriminalität zunehmend in schwer erkennbare Bereiche des Internets. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/aufdeckung-15-500-boesartige-domains
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Aufdeckung von rund 15.500 bösartigen Domains
Wie aktuelle Analysen von Infoblox Threat Intel und Confiant zeigen, verlagert sich Cyberkriminalität zunehmend in schwer erkennbare Bereiche des Internets. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/aufdeckung-15-500-boesartige-domains